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Otago Polytech is committed to minimising their environmental impact and encouraging others to embrace sustainable practices. Here are a couple of their achievements to date:

• the first NZ tertiary institution to join the Climate Leaders Coalition
• measure their greenhouse gas emissions and publicly report on them
• set a public emissions reduction target consistent with keeping within 2 degrees of warming and have committed to being carbon neutral by 2030
• committed to 100% of their undergraduate programmes directly addressing issues of sustainable practice
• living campus gardens
• Pōpopo Wormporium
• the conversion of coal-fired boilers to wood-fired ones which radically reduced emissions
• Te Pā Tauira and the award-winning green building erected for student living, this being highly efficient on energy use and built using the most sustainable materials
• Under construction now is another major piece of building infrastructure following the above principles.